"Art Meets Beast is not just an opportunity for people to learn more about local production of food, it's also a chance to have fun at the museum and have great meals," says Sarah Baie, MCA director of programming. "We want to invite audiences to consider the connections firsthand between food and culture by looking more closely at the food we eat."

The event starts on Friday, November 9 with "Bison Carving and Food Pornography," a bison-butchering workshop led by Pete Marczyk of Marczyk Fine Foods. the meat that results will be distributed to chefs Jamey Fader of Lola, Keegan Gerhard of D Bar, Troy Guard of TAG, Max MacKissock of Squeaky Bean, Jorel Pierce of Euclid Hall and Sean Yontz of El Diablo and Sketch, who will use it to create a six-course bison dinner, complete with music for stampede, on Sunday, November 11.

Here's the complete schedule:

BISON CARVING AND FOOD PORNOGRAPHY

Friday, November 9 6:30 - 8 p.m.

Bison butchering workshop with Pete Marczyk; vegetarian pornographic food film with live score.

At MCA Denver. $10 / $5 members 4H LIVESTOCK SHOWCASE

Saturday, November 10 10 a.m.- 1 p.m.

Farm animal showcase presented by The Urban Farm. With music and donuts. At MCA Denver. Rain or shine. FREE with museum admission.

Patricia Calhoun co-founded Westword, Denver’s News and Arts weekly, in 1977; she’s been the editor there ever since. She’s a regular on the weekly Colorado Public Television roundtable Colorado Inside Out, the former president of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies -- a post that got her an unexpected interview with former President Bill Clinton in front of a thousand people (while she was in flip-flops) -- and played a real journalist in John Sayles’s Silver City.